#3 "Evening" The Moody Blues

Artist: The Moody Blues (London Festival Orchestra)
Song: Evening: The Sun Set/Twilight Time
Album: Days Of Future Passed
Personal Rating: ***
This song really reminds me of "The Jungle Book" at least the first half of it does. Especially the little flute run about 1:22 into the song and repeats occasionally. As the title suggests, the song is about the evening time of a day, The first half of the song has a good vibe to it, with a jungle like feel.I don't care too much for the second half of the piece "Twilight Time." It doesn't seem to fit with the orchestra part leading into it, nor the earlier part of the song. It is abrupt and unexpected. I Think it should be a separate track as it almost takes away from the song, putting them together.I do like the final orchestra bit of this song, it has a feel that is very similar to Danny Elfman's arrangements. This Album represents the birth of the fusion between rock and orchestra, pioneering an entirely new vein of music genres. And new options for stage antics (your welcome KISS ) Any one who has not atleast listened to this album once, ought to since it certainly has it's place in the "Hystory of good music" file.Through out the album there seems to be a separation between songs by the moody blues and the orchestra pieces, almost like two different entities, both good but they seem too separate at times, with little congruency, With the exception to "The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (Tuesday)/a time to get away" and a few others. A concept album as well, it plots out different times of the day and describes activities that one might do during various times in said day.
Favorite line: "The world still goes on through the night"